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Free will, it’s a seductive idea but do we really have it? If we are a product of our genes and environment, does free will still mean anything? We make […]

Yesterday in the US Bring Me The Horizon’s new album “There Is A Hell, Believe Me I’ve Seen It, There Is A Heaven, Let’s Keep It A Secret” was released and as soon as

Lil Wayne is spending the last month of his jail career in solitary confinement because he was listening to music on an mp3. MP3’s are considered contraband. And so his

I really did like Good Ass Fun, the working title of Kanye’s upcoming title, but it was no 808s And Heartbreaks and I might add that the title he has

 Busy Week For Concerts for me. Thursday, October 7th – The Hold Steady at Beacon Theatre and a crap seat BUT… they were great at Bowery ballroom earlier this

U2 sucks. Heres proof. Spiderman song is officially unveiled below. I can tell you that Bono has an old man ass. He looks like a roughed up hobo. You’d figure

The crunkcore jokes BrokeNcyde released their new song “Teach Me How To Scream” today and boy was it a waste of time.  Absolutely, horrifically bad.  The only real word for

Oh, where to begin? I have never liked Aerosmith. They always seemed to ride the coattails of the Rolling Stones and were a watered-down version of bands like Guns ‘N

Ok, I don’t get it. can’t you run a music website without booking the rock bands you are writing about? How did this happen? Listen, THERE IS A CONFLICT OF

Bring Me The Horizon’s new album is being sold everywhere in the U.S. today.  So as soon as you’re on your lunch break, or out of school, or free, go

Corin Tucker Band – 1,000 Years YES Marnie Stern – s/t (Kill Rock Stars) NoAntony and the Johnsons – Swanlights (Secretly Canadian) Yes Belle & Sebastian – Write About Love (Matador)

Comedy and music go together like ham and cheese. No wait,wrong post. Comedy or parody music goes back way back for me anyway to “Hello Mother Hello Father”, thats about

Singles released yesterday:Badly Drawn Boy – ‘Too Many Miracles’Villagers – ‘That Day’The Bees – ‘I Really Need Love’British Sea Power – ‘Zeus’Cee Lo Green – ‘Fuck You’Frankie & The Heartstrings

1. Good Friday – Kanye West – Good time hip hop brings the party. 2. Good For You (I Would Be) – Nive Nielsen and Jan De Vroede – Sounds

Lady Gaga joined Yoko Ono on stage this weekend for her Plastic Ono band thing, at the Orpheum theater in LA… I was not there, but there are a few

Happy Birthday Sir Bob Geldof born today in 1951. Bob was one foxy mo’fo back in the day.  The video for the song”Up All Night” did just that, well err..woooot! As

Ah yes, 2007. You could insult the president with impunity, Wall Street hadn’t evolved into a Welfare recipient, rock nyc didn’t exist, and I had an assistant. Oh, and I

If you can only read one post today read this one. But if you can read only read two, read Simon Doonan’s Liberace article posted on Slate this past Thursday.

How good a blues singer was Janis Joplin, who died 40 years ago yesterday?  Janis  was good enough to be mentioned in the same breadth as Billie Holiday. Janis transcended

Oh no. I haven’t liked REM in a decade ago. But a decade ago I loved them. So what do the schmucks at Glee decide to destroy? One of their

The Echo Curio is this strange little shop/Art gallery in Echo Park selling paintings and curious objects of all kinds, promoting local and international artists. The place is also regularly

The first pic are the shoes Animal Collective have designed and the profits are going to the second pix are where the profits to save the Socorro Island Conservation Fund,

The Hole In The Wall camps were the brainchild of the late Paul Newman, The camps provider terminally ill children an opportunity  to spend a week at camp at no

Isn’t there something somewhere about how it is wrong to fun at others misfortunes? I think we can make an exception in the case of a band that would jump

I’ve always had a problem with authority’, this is how starts Greg Graffin’s new book ‘Anarchy Evolution’, and I should have asked him if it was the scientist or the

Myspace may be dead, but the bands are still comin’.  In Her Own Words, suggested to me by my friend Finn, and I was blown away.  The more than incredible 5

There are very few times in life when I feel hip.  This could potentially be one of them though the jury is still out. Japanese Popstars. Well first off do

President Obama spoke to Rolling Stone about his interaction with Bob Dylan when Dylan was invited to perform “The Times They Are A Changing” at the White House. “He wouldn’t

Two new albums there for one purpose only: to remind me not to buy albums. Mark Ronson acts like a real pro Tool -a busy, busy album of bleeps and

The first 51 seconds of “Titus Andronicus” are self-referential to the point of dairyish, inclusive over and above anthem, and a wonderful joke because it declaims what Stickles is actually

The Young Vein’s pretty pretty ballad “Nothing Matters But Would You” should come as a surprise to no one. Obviously from the same hand that brought  us Panic’s superior ”Foklin’

Or rather, the equivalent in Greenland, a country in Denmark (yeah, weird right?), 4400 copies in a country of 55,000 people,  of  Nive Nielsen’s debut EP Nive Sings. Or 16M if

Have you ever taken a walk during the fall and needed the perfect play list?  Look no further.   1.  “Therapy”- All Time Low.  It’s calm and for some reason

1. Hey, Good Looking – George Jones – The greatest singer in country music sings the greatest songwriter in country music. But though Jones nails the melody dead, he misses

Broadway is going more ‘has been’ rock and roller by the minute.  But not in a bad way. First Billie Joe Armstrong stepped into his own musical American Idiot and

A Rocket To The Moon are one of those bands get lost in the shuffle. Not as cool as some, not as cute and dynamic as others. Generic ‘music’ that

Ok Here is the Hold Steady set list chosen at random (an April gig so) . Plus my comments. OK… Let’s do this.1. Positive Jam –  Whoops, don’t know it

Far be it for me to day anything positive about Courtney Love but, in this literal cartoon off Women’s Wear, Love is a little cool. I mean when you are

It is very difficult to compare songs, you can compare images by putting them side by side, but songs? If you play them together it is a confusion you cannot

As everybody knows by now, Casey Affleck’s documentary of Joaquin Phoenix’s flame out as a rap star is a fake. A searing indictment of celebrityhood and a dazzling tour de

 You know how I feel when I do a cut and paste job on this blog. I feel sullied. Like when I was a teen and  promised myself I

1. Never On A Sunday – Bing Crosby – If all da Bing had done was teach us how to use a mic his position as one of the great

Elsewhere today  Alyson Camus writes a blistering review of DJ Kavinky and some other DJs. Since I haven’t heard the others I can’t respond to those criticism. But I have

Sebastien Tellier may be big in France, and may have some kind of underground cult following, but I’m not sure how big because he was 2008 France candidate in the

So Iman and I watched Kanyes first song on SNL Me? I couldn’t stop laughing, the white box interpretive dance and the Disney crown was a bit too much for

Now here is one of the stupidest quotes I’ve heard in awhile. Here is Ne “Only In It For The Art” Yo, setting the youngsters straight: “People’s reasons for making

Unicorn Kid is a teenage mixer from Edinburgh in Scotland. He has already oerformed his magic on Pet Shop Boys and Gorillaz and his first song, “Dreamcatcher” sounds like a